If there is a junk yard around there maybe they would buy a bunch of that stuff. I think knowing where you can get anything you might need is better than having all that stuff setting around in case you need it . I don't know what those wheels are worth but there are people that would love to have them, Hemmings would be the place to advertise them.
Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop
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egnorant
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It will be a struggle to separate scrap from ****, tools and supplies, parts for upcoming projects vs. parts that someone might need and are hard to find.
My epiphany was when I realized that my needs ruled my setup. Sure I liked the cleanliness, organization and function of a Jack Olsen garage...but it would never do the things I wanted to do!
I saw your shelf with 4 electric motors and just know that many would look and say "Scrap em"! I have a similar pile that saved the day when my big fan motor died or I accidentally buy a little air compressor for 5 bucks.
Even the hoard of 60s Ford parts fits my vision. I could have hauled a lot off for scrap, but it is better when someone calls needing an alternator spacer for a specific year and I can hand it to them or I find a new "rescue car" and can repair it with parts on hand!
Set up my cabinet sandblaster and justified my decision to save that box of weatherstripping 2 years ago or that piece of aluminum plate that made mounting a shifter in a 58 Ford truck work. I might work on a convertible top, do an oil change, fab up a longer hose on the pressure washer and try to put air horns on a golf cart!
My scrap piles are getting bigger because scrap is low and it ain't eating nothing and I ain't hurting for cash. Plus that piece of angle works for making those brackets or holding that shelf!!
Bruce
My epiphany was when I realized that my needs ruled my setup. Sure I liked the cleanliness, organization and function of a Jack Olsen garage...but it would never do the things I wanted to do!
I saw your shelf with 4 electric motors and just know that many would look and say "Scrap em"! I have a similar pile that saved the day when my big fan motor died or I accidentally buy a little air compressor for 5 bucks.
Even the hoard of 60s Ford parts fits my vision. I could have hauled a lot off for scrap, but it is better when someone calls needing an alternator spacer for a specific year and I can hand it to them or I find a new "rescue car" and can repair it with parts on hand!
Set up my cabinet sandblaster and justified my decision to save that box of weatherstripping 2 years ago or that piece of aluminum plate that made mounting a shifter in a 58 Ford truck work. I might work on a convertible top, do an oil change, fab up a longer hose on the pressure washer and try to put air horns on a golf cart!
My scrap piles are getting bigger because scrap is low and it ain't eating nothing and I ain't hurting for cash. Plus that piece of angle works for making those brackets or holding that shelf!!
Bruce
MagKarl
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Cool! I'm a packrat engineer myself. Very little in this world is truly scrap worthy trash in my view. Trick is finding what you need when you need it.
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oldironfarmer
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Thanks for the comment. Obviously I've had a tough time throwing away things that I pretty much know I'll never use. I've cleaned up my shop many times, and my friends think it's hilarious that I think I can keep more space clean when I haven't done so with it's current size. That's part of intended irony in the thread title.
I don't need more space, but I want more space for storage of cars I have and those I intend to fix up. And getting more shelving put up to organize what I want to keep goes along with getting rid of what does not need to stay.
This forum, and especially 1930's Auto Shop has really inspired me. My shop is headed toward the way that shop was found.
Come back for more!
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oldironfarmer
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Thanks for your visit and comments! I do like my shop, I get a lot of work done there. The separate areas kind of grew by necessity. First I built the wood shop so i could have an air conditioned space to work wood in. That gave me mezzanine storage above. That was in the late eighties. Built the blacksmith shop (closing in part of the east shed) in the early nineties with a dirt floor, like they are supposed to have. Then in about 2006 I added the machine shop area as a space to tear down tractors and not obstruct the lift or keep me from moving a piece of farm equipment in the shop. That involved enclosing more of the shed and moving the wall into the shop to get enough depth. Not planned for machine work but that's where the lathe and mill went, air conditioned off the wood shop window unit. Spent time building nice shelves on that part of the mezzanine and organized what I put up there by type of equipment for spare parts and for extra tools. I acquired the broom machine in 2009 and had to build a room to work it in. Put a pine floor in it, and it's a great, light working area. It needed it's own window unit. Now the 37 won't leave the machine shop and the Chevelle is camped out on the lift so I need to build a garage for them. My other vehicles survive in carports but these two are finicky.
Not everything is going back into the shop, but I found some stuff cleaning out that I didn't know I had
Some stuff I don't want to get rid of are antiques, even those of dubious value, like a rock bar made out of a Model A drive shaft. I have two, and one made from a buggy axle. I use them, but just have to find a place for them. Found another one today.
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oldironfarmer
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Thanks for the visit and the advice. I know I can buy anything I want, and saving short pieces of pipe and other bits of steel gets out of hand. However every time I pick up a short piece of angle iron and don't have to cut it to make a clip I am quite smug.
The problem with advertising and selling is it really does take time to photograph, etc. I really need ot find someone locally who would sell stuff for a big cut of the take.
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oldironfarmer
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Well, you're not much help
Obviously a man after my heart. Look what I found today I didn't know I had. And it is free and turns smoothly. Don't know how long it's been there, but I'm sure I hauled it in from somewhere.1476
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Your shop has so much potential... It already looks good in the interior pictures. If you are looking to clean up some more and would be willing to ship one of those Farmall grills to RI I'd be a buyer. There is nobody around me with a collection like yours and I want to hang one on my wall.
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Just an old Ford 9"! Hose it off, pull some numbers and use it, store it or sell it! Might be just what someone is looking for. I dug up a Ford truck steering box, after I cleared an area, that had a few guys going ape over. First instinct was to chunk it on scrap (and I was hauling a lot of scrap then!!) but I got $150.00 and a friend instead.
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Thanks for the visit and the kind words. You've caught me at a weak moment. Send me a PM and we'll see what we can work out.
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oldironfarmer
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I have a use for it, got my FIL's 48 Suburban, no engine or transmission. Thinking about a crate 454, built 700R4, and a 9" Ford should round that out nicely. Didn't know I already had one. It was under a Model A and two V8 trumpet axles.
You mentioned Jack Olsen's garage. Pretty cool place. It's obviously not me. Then some of the garages you see have really nice decorations and relaxation areas, that's just not me either.
To me, the shop is to work in, and work is my recreation.
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oldironfarmer
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Today was the third day cleaning up outside to get ready to expand my shop. I had a pile of salvage steel outside the shop which started on a V8 Ford four wheel wagon loaded with steel when I moved to the farm in 1985.
Well, it got added to, as well as piled upon, some of the added material was unusable, and some only had remote potential.
Here's a "before" picture.
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After a hard day sorting and moving, it looks like this
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That's basically the trailer on the right.
Here's one of the wheels, I'm glad to get them out of the dirt and see what kind of shape they are in.
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I did tow it in here, after a twenty mile trip. Where does the time go?
Found nine wooden wheel tires. All genuine wrought iron.
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and three trumpet Ford axles along with the 9".
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one of them with the wishbone. I've got another Model A four wheel trailer with the bottom half of the engine and frame. It needs to be restored but that just takes time.
If I can finish cleaning up tomorrow I'm ready to look at floor level and fill quantities.
I plan to use used poles. I built a pole barn on a leased pasture in the nineties. Used it almost twenty years, but gave up the lease and barn. It blew down a few years ago, and this winter I asked for the poles, and the owner said get what I want. 5x5 square poles, pretty weather cracked, bu tI think they'll do for this addition just fine. If I don't use them now, why do I have them?
Well, it got added to, as well as piled upon, some of the added material was unusable, and some only had remote potential.
Here's a "before" picture.
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After a hard day sorting and moving, it looks like this
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That's basically the trailer on the right.
Here's one of the wheels, I'm glad to get them out of the dirt and see what kind of shape they are in.
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I did tow it in here, after a twenty mile trip. Where does the time go?
Found nine wooden wheel tires. All genuine wrought iron.
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and three trumpet Ford axles along with the 9".
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one of them with the wishbone. I've got another Model A four wheel trailer with the bottom half of the engine and frame. It needs to be restored but that just takes time.
If I can finish cleaning up tomorrow I'm ready to look at floor level and fill quantities.
I plan to use used poles. I built a pole barn on a leased pasture in the nineties. Used it almost twenty years, but gave up the lease and barn. It blew down a few years ago, and this winter I asked for the poles, and the owner said get what I want. 5x5 square poles, pretty weather cracked, bu tI think they'll do for this addition just fine. If I don't use them now, why do I have them?
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One more day cleaning up "outside inventory". Went quicker than I thought. Here's what it looks like now
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That really is clean All the iron is off the ground (lots of little pieces), just one plow, a channel frame, and an RV porch in the way. A few more big pieces past the barn and you can drive around the addition. The flags at each future post don't show up too well. From the other direction:
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And a small burn pile to be disposed of.
When I got the trailer out, all four wheels turned, it would steer, and still had one hub cap.
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Tires need some stop leak, though. I like the old trailer, has two Ford front axles, front one still uses the tie rods to steer with.
Now I'm thinking about restoring it to have around the place.
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That really is clean
All the iron is off the ground (lots of little pieces), just one plow, a channel frame, and an RV porch in the way. A few more big pieces past the barn and you can drive around the addition. The flags at each future post don't show up too well. From the other direction:1492
And a small burn pile to be disposed of.
When I got the trailer out, all four wheels turned, it would steer, and still had one hub cap.
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Tires need some stop leak, though. I like the old trailer, has two Ford front axles, front one still uses the tie rods to steer with.
Now I'm thinking about restoring it to have around the place.
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It is a well known fact that junk expands to fill the space available. So, by cleaning up and organizing your current junk from horizontal to vertical storage you simply make room available for more junk. Adding on simply compounds the problem. I think you need to rethink this entire project.
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Looks like you're making some headway there. Most of us have similar problems, just on different scales when it comes to junk. 
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Looks like you're making some headway there. Most of us have similar problems, just on different scales when it comes to junk.
Some people seem to be able to live in a clean world, that includes, for the most part, buying supplies for projects. Most of what I do comes from "found" materials, so I like to save usable parts and pieces.
Cleaning up and putting tools away after a job is a habit. I don't seem to have that habit but am trying to develop it. Part of being able to put things away is to have a place to put them. I've never been able to get to that point, but I'm seriously working that direction.
The real purpose of my add on is to gain storage for a few cars to allow me quit using my lift as permanent storage, and to free up space in my maintenance area, where the blue car is now.
I'm not certain my habits will change but I'm enjoying the prospect of more efficient working conditions.
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Sometimes you gotta force a habit! Putting up tools, rolling up that hose, cleaning that workbench, just keep doing it until you just keep doing it!
A tough one is that if you pick something up...put it down where it belongs, not some halfway point.
Bruce
A tough one is that if you pick something up...put it down where it belongs, not some halfway point.
Bruce
Terrick down Under
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OIF, I love the trailer. I would like to suggest that the you keep going with this momentum, because you are really doing well.
bczygan
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You are making major progress.
As a fellow hoarder I can give some good advice.
Pick one space or area and focus on it.
First go through is to take out trash and dispose of it. That is easy.
This then frees up enough space to do a rough organization.
Make piles of what goes in other locations and a pile of what goes in this location.
Once you have done this for a number of spaces, then you can begin taking things to the space or room where they belong.
At this point you are semi-organized, but still have too much stuff to be able to get to or use it all.
Hopefully you have designated storage areas and work areas.
If you have too much stuff in any area, for it to be workable, and by that I mean you can easily get to all the items in a work area and you have space to work in the work areas, then you must eliminate some of the stuff.
This is the hard part. This is where you must change your way of thinking. This is where you must give up the mind set that you need things "just in case", or that something has some intrinsic or future value and must be kept.
Things only have value if they have a fairly immediate use by you.
Every thing that you own, also owns you. You must provide it safe and protected space and maintain it and keep it safe from theft. You must insure it. And in the greater scheme of things, if you don't use it, then someone else is being deprived of it's use.
And there is nothing wrong with having a collection, per se, as long as it doesn't impinge on your ability to have a varied and full life. When you become a slave to your things, you have too many things.
So time to get rid of every item not needed for your actual purposes. Parts for tractors or cars that you do not have? Dispose of them, one way or another. Projects you will never realistically get to? Time to re-home them. Farm implements that have no immediate use? Sell, scrap or just toss.
If Craigslist and Ebay are too much trouble, then give it away, scrap it or simply toss it.
Every item that is surplus to your needs, is a sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Ask me how I know.
And by the way, none of this is easy. You have trains of thought firmly embedded in your brain, that stand ready to prevent you from doing this. You must defeat them by countering with better thought patterns. When your brain says, "I could get good money for this item", then either do so, or counter with, "It's too much trouble, and so is it too much trouble living over it forever, so out it goes".
Bill
As a fellow hoarder I can give some good advice.
Pick one space or area and focus on it.
First go through is to take out trash and dispose of it. That is easy.
This then frees up enough space to do a rough organization.
Make piles of what goes in other locations and a pile of what goes in this location.
Once you have done this for a number of spaces, then you can begin taking things to the space or room where they belong.
At this point you are semi-organized, but still have too much stuff to be able to get to or use it all.
Hopefully you have designated storage areas and work areas.
If you have too much stuff in any area, for it to be workable, and by that I mean you can easily get to all the items in a work area and you have space to work in the work areas, then you must eliminate some of the stuff.
This is the hard part. This is where you must change your way of thinking. This is where you must give up the mind set that you need things "just in case", or that something has some intrinsic or future value and must be kept.
Things only have value if they have a fairly immediate use by you.
Every thing that you own, also owns you. You must provide it safe and protected space and maintain it and keep it safe from theft. You must insure it. And in the greater scheme of things, if you don't use it, then someone else is being deprived of it's use.
And there is nothing wrong with having a collection, per se, as long as it doesn't impinge on your ability to have a varied and full life. When you become a slave to your things, you have too many things.
So time to get rid of every item not needed for your actual purposes. Parts for tractors or cars that you do not have? Dispose of them, one way or another. Projects you will never realistically get to? Time to re-home them. Farm implements that have no immediate use? Sell, scrap or just toss.
If Craigslist and Ebay are too much trouble, then give it away, scrap it or simply toss it.
Every item that is surplus to your needs, is a sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Ask me how I know.
And by the way, none of this is easy. You have trains of thought firmly embedded in your brain, that stand ready to prevent you from doing this. You must defeat them by countering with better thought patterns. When your brain says, "I could get good money for this item", then either do so, or counter with, "It's too much trouble, and so is it too much trouble living over it forever, so out it goes".
Bill
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wow you sir have a lot of stuff!! id lose my mind with that much stuff everywhere lol good luck to you sir looks like it will be really nice when your done
egnorant
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Subscribed for several reasons.
I had a similar struggle with decades of unorganized stuff to deal with and still have a way to go and the encouragement is useful.
Posting with pictures is fun! Like a documented archeological dig into stuff I have an interest in. I may even spot something that I or a friend are looking for. (air cleaner assembly for a Ford 8N?).
It helps me avoid the dreaded hoarder label. Now that I am better organized, I can work on my projects, supply other in their projects and keep useful stuff safe and not interfering with my immediate goals. Sure, I could make 2 phone calls and go scorched earth on my stuff and lead a simpler life. I just have more fun rescuing stuff and getting it back in use. I have hit "more out than in"...not fast but rewarding. I love getting pics of some old truck that I sent to Missouri showing off a run to Sonic with the new air ride or a homecoming queen in a parade in a car I pulled from someones back yard. Latest thrill was a car I saved from the crusher! Literally 2 minutes away from being snatched off a trailer by one of those big magnet things. 17 year old rebuilt it and drove it to cruise night last Saturday.
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I had a similar struggle with decades of unorganized stuff to deal with and still have a way to go and the encouragement is useful.
Posting with pictures is fun! Like a documented archeological dig into stuff I have an interest in. I may even spot something that I or a friend are looking for. (air cleaner assembly for a Ford 8N?).
It helps me avoid the dreaded hoarder label. Now that I am better organized, I can work on my projects, supply other in their projects and keep useful stuff safe and not interfering with my immediate goals. Sure, I could make 2 phone calls and go scorched earth on my stuff and lead a simpler life. I just have more fun rescuing stuff and getting it back in use. I have hit "more out than in"...not fast but rewarding. I love getting pics of some old truck that I sent to Missouri showing off a run to Sonic with the new air ride or a homecoming queen in a parade in a car I pulled from someones back yard. Latest thrill was a car I saved from the crusher! Literally 2 minutes away from being snatched off a trailer by one of those big magnet things. 17 year old rebuilt it and drove it to cruise night last Saturday.
Bruce
Wow, Your shop is awesome!! Being a woodworker and just getting into welding and metal working I enjoyed looking at your dedicated rooms for each one of your interests. Before you start tossing all that stuff, ask around for any young men that are getting into welding or just enjoy old stuff like what are going to dump.
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oldironfarmer
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Good advice, and trying to change is tough. GJ actually gave me the impetus to really try. In my mind, I do pretty good, but, in my mind, I'm a great guy, too.
Love your avatar, by the way, I've got some old Craftsman tools and love them, like the spun aluminum sheet on old table saws.
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oldironfarmer,, just checking on your progress, what a difference you have made.
Keep up the good work..
Regards
Keep up the good work..
Regards
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oldironfarmer
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The momentum is important, and right now I'm making great progress. The tough par for me will be continuing to organize and stow everything that belongs in the shop once I have the addition enclosed. My normal is to get it usable then on to other things. Reporting in to you guys may be helping in that area.
Thanks for the visit and mutual support. There is a lot of excellent advice on GJ and I'm loving it.
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oldironfarmer
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Well thought out and organized response, Bill. A little tough for me to have to read. However I've done the sorting and relocating many times. It gets tough when I try to discard of something of moderate value, because generally there is little value except to me and maybe a few other eccentrics.
Farm implements are not yet an issue, I have a couple of acres of old junk implements, purportedly to be used to supply parts. It always amazes me when I don't want to take a part off a piece of junk because then that artifact is not complete and the person in the future who wants to restore it is short that part. No real logic there, but I struggle with that issue.
The tractors in my yard are used for farming (just ranching now) and are close to the shop for maintenance. That's four, the other two dozen or so are there to be restored, but I'm not sure by whom. I have a few classics which have some value, but for the most part they are junk. However they are not really in the way.
It is ridiculous to add to a shop to attempt to organize, but I am having great fun doing it and will have a better shop after the add. Now if I can just keep on point trim down to what I need and use regularly life will have improved.
Welders: I have two cracker box Lincolns (one was a friend's before he died), an IdealArc 200 amp tombstone, a Lincoln SA-200 (copper wound, also from a deceased friend) and a cheap flux core. I really need to get the IdealArc wired up and get me a TIG rig for it, but I keep using the one cracker box and the other is in the way. Pretty easy solution when you put it in black and white, not so easy in full color life.
So my plan for the SA-200 is to mount it on a '48 Chevy cabover, with a winch and gin poles. But it is outside and not really in the way, focus on what is inside the shop, Andy
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Did you find my mind? If so I really really need it back.
Thanks for the visit.
(Good news is most of my stuff is not in the shop)
Maybe that's the bad news
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oldironfarmer
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Well put. One of my friends saw what became a favorite bumper sticker "some days I just want to be a missing person".
I like the "more out than in" concept.
Avoiding old iron going to the furnace is important to me. As life gets shorter, figuring out how to pass the pain around is getting more important: finding others that want this junk.
Stay around, I need the support.
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oldironfarmer
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I don't toss, stuff. I am becoming more aggressive at giving some away.
thanks for the kind comments about the shop. I like to do lot's of different things, so of course not going to be very proficient at any of them, but I can make a good broom!
My shop just kind of grew this way. Sometimes I wonder if it would have been better as one big room, but it does work.
Woodworking and metalwork are very similar to me. It's all about how you setup and fixture to get your work done.
Once I started doing machine work and can fabricate parts for tools, a big door opened for me. It's a real blast to not have to go to town to buy what you need to repair lot's of equipment.
And thanks for the visit and kind words!
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oldironfarmer,, just checking on your progress, what a difference you have made.
Keep up the good work..
Regards
Thanks for the visit, the cleanup and add on is accelerating
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oldironfarmer
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Wow! Lot's of nice replies! Thanks again for all the visits!
Get to the pictures!
Early this morning I went down to the local home store to shop for treated timbers for my shop add-on.
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These are the ones I salvaged last fall before I dreamed of adding on to the shop. I need seven, and found seven good ones.
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A couple of them have a little wind to them, but I need 12 ft and those are 18 ft long, I can trim most of the bend or twist out.
Still have enough for a small shed and lots of cribbing.
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My little son in law (I call him that, but he is 69) brought his backhoe over today (who doesn't like a SIL with a backhoe?)
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He is a heavy equipment operator, code welder, rancher, and has common sense out the wahzoo. He also has bad luck, drew an engineer for a FIL.
We shot levels and decided to cut the existing shed floor about 10 inches to minimize outside fill. There will be a nine inch step from the main shop floor down to the add-on 6-inch slab.
Did I say he was an equipment operator He is a real ace. I trusted him to relocate my new compressor (my rigging so he had an out). His first try at cutting the dirt floor (2 inches at the opening, 10 inches at the wall) was off by 1 inch and sloped 1/2 inch in 15 feet. I'm always amazed at his eye, and control of the hoe. I make a test measurement and it is right on and he just smiles. I rig for him and am very comfortable working right next to the bucket. That goes against all the refinery safety training I've had but it works for us.
He got into a little rock on the north end and the cut is a little variable there, but, all in all a very productive day.
Looking south
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Where the old Ford V8 trailer was, and an elm tree he dug out for me
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Looking north
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I'm ready to set poles, but it makes a lot more sense to pour the existing shed, then put in an expansion joint and pour the new addition.
Tomorrow we'll do final grading on the existing shed, shoot the outdoor pad, form the existing shed and start putting down vapor barrier and wire.
This is really fun even if I don't clean up my shop I'm going to have a 30x40 bay to store up to six cars in (they can stack in the existing shed with a little blue steel) plus I'm adding a foundry room on the north end.
Get to the pictures!
Early this morning I went down to the local home store to shop for treated timbers for my shop add-on.
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These are the ones I salvaged last fall before I dreamed of adding on to the shop. I need seven, and found seven good ones.
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A couple of them have a little wind to them, but I need 12 ft and those are 18 ft long, I can trim most of the bend or twist out.
Still have enough for a small shed and lots of cribbing.
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My little son in law (I call him that, but he is 69) brought his backhoe over today (who doesn't like a SIL with a backhoe?)
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He is a heavy equipment operator, code welder, rancher, and has common sense out the wahzoo. He also has bad luck, drew an engineer for a FIL.
We shot levels and decided to cut the existing shed floor about 10 inches to minimize outside fill. There will be a nine inch step from the main shop floor down to the add-on 6-inch slab.
Did I say he was an equipment operator
He is a real ace. I trusted him to relocate my new compressor (my rigging so he had an out). His first try at cutting the dirt floor (2 inches at the opening, 10 inches at the wall) was off by 1 inch and sloped 1/2 inch in 15 feet. I'm always amazed at his eye, and control of the hoe. I make a test measurement and it is right on and he just smiles. I rig for him and am very comfortable working right next to the bucket. That goes against all the refinery safety training I've had but it works for us.He got into a little rock on the north end and the cut is a little variable there, but, all in all a very productive day.
Looking south
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Where the old Ford V8 trailer was, and an elm tree he dug out for me
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Looking north
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I'm ready to set poles, but it makes a lot more sense to pour the existing shed, then put in an expansion joint and pour the new addition.
Tomorrow we'll do final grading on the existing shed, shoot the outdoor pad, form the existing shed and start putting down vapor barrier and wire.
This is really fun even if I don't clean up my shop I'm going to have a 30x40 bay to store up to six cars in (they can stack in the existing shed with a little blue steel) plus I'm adding a foundry room on the north end.
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Wow Andy, this thread has really taken off since I was here a few days ago - I saw your old Atlas DP on Hugo's thread and thought I'd pop in for a quick look - 45 minutes later, I've caught up.
Who doesn't love a '37 Chevy.
That's not something that I'd consider trying. (I'm joking)
I'll have to check on my thread later (I've neglected it a bit lately).
We visited my FIL last weekend, I'll have to post a pic of his latest project.
I do too, although I've got some adjustable shelving that was being discarded (free is always good).
I'm looking forward to seeing that one.
I have never heard anyone say "my shed is too big"...EVER!
Thanks for the tour - you make your own brooms!!! (I'm impressed).
And did I hear you mention a '48 COE???
Are there "pearly gates" at the entrance to your property?
Who doesn't love a '37 Chevy.
That's not something that I'd consider trying.
(I'm joking)I'll have to check on my thread later (I've neglected it a bit lately).
We visited my FIL last weekend, I'll have to post a pic of his latest project.
I do too, although I've got some adjustable shelving that was being discarded (free is always good).
I'm looking forward to seeing that one.
Are you thinking I should build bigger?
I have never heard anyone say "my shed is too big"...EVER!
Thanks for the tour - you make your own brooms!!! (I'm impressed).
And did I hear you mention a '48 COE???
Are there "pearly gates" at the entrance to your property?
Terrick down Under
Well-known member
Man o man,.....do you need another SIL, I can weld, machine, concrete and drive cars??????LOL, who would not like to have 10% of what you have. I'm not jealous, well only a little bit.
Please keep up the pics and dialogue, its so interesting.
Please keep up the pics and dialogue, its so interesting.
Grumblebum
Well-known member
Terrick I think there is going to be a queue up for SIL adoption.
Great little thread Andy, love the shed and tractors. Your hoarding as you call it looks pretty organised to me so far.
Cheers GB.
Great little thread Andy, love the shed and tractors. Your hoarding as you call it looks pretty organised to me so far.
Cheers GB.
BBChevro
Well-known member
It's not "hoarding" GB, it's "inventory".
(Mighty nice inventory too, I might add).
(Mighty nice inventory too, I might add).
dlcwent
Member Emeritus
Wow, Glad I got steered over here.
Oldironfarmer, I didn't realize that one could farm iron. I was wrong. You have the best crop of iron I've ever seen. Very impressive. How many tractors do you actually have?
Oldironfarmer, I didn't realize that one could farm iron. I was wrong. You have the best crop of iron I've ever seen. Very impressive. How many tractors do you actually have?